Flower-bracket for burial-caskets



(No Model.)

B. P. GLEASON. I FLOWER BRAGKET FOR BURIAL GASKETS. .No. 519,426.

Patented May .8, 1894. V

IL Fl IIIII l ..NITED 'TATES PATENT OFFICE.

FLOWER-BRACKET FOR BU RlAL-CASKETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 519,426, dated May 8,1894.

Application filed December 24,1888. Serial No. 294-513- (N 1 1 To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. GLEASON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brockport, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Flower-Bracketsfor Burial-0askets; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe drawings accompanying this application.

My improvement relates to brackets for holding flowers on burialcaskets, and consists in the construction and arrangement of partshereinafter described and embodied in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation, partially in section, ofthe device attached to a casket. Fig. 2 is an enlarged bottom orunder-side View of same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the inner end.Fig. 4 is an inside elevation of the stationary bearing 0 which isattached to the casket. Fig. 5 is a modification of the lockingattachment.

A indicates the burial casket, the lid being removed from place.

O is a block forming the stationary bearing of the bracket that isattached to the casket. At the top of the bearing is an enlarged head orflange a, that laps over the edge of the easket, and through whichpasses one or more set screws 1), b, which tighten on top of the casket.

d is a clamp pivoted at f inside the bearing 0. The upperpointed end ofthe clamp rests under a stop o, attached to the casket. This.

stop may be of any convenient form, a right angled'casting securedbyascrewbeingshown. A simple wood screw driven into the casket willanswer the purpose. 9 is a set screw which passes through the bearing 0and rests against the lower end of the clamp d; by turning the screw dthe clamp will be forced up against the stop 1;, and as the bearing isheld at the top by the set screws b, b, it will be seen that the bearingwill be securely fastened to the top of the casket.

It is customary in ordinary brackets now in use to attach the bracketdirectly to the lid instead of the casket. The arrangement abovedescribed enables the bracket to be attached to the casket. It isfrequently desirable to have the bracket attached to the easket when thelid is removed. The same device, however, can be attached to the lid bybringing the clamp against the under edge of the lid while the screws1), I), hold on top.

h is a screw at the lower end of bearing 0, having a head pivoted at iso that the screw can be turned up and down. On the outer end of thescrewis a tubular nut j which, when the screw is in a horizontalposition, can be turned out on the screw to fit against the inclinedside of the casket, thereby form ing-a stop. This device is ofadvantage, as by turning the nut out or in it can be made to fit casketsof different inclines and preserve the Verticalposition of bearing 0 andhold it in place. There is considerable difference in the incline ofdifierent caskets, and-some are made with square sides. This deviceenables the bearing to be held vertically in place at'all times. Whenthe device is notin use the screw with nut attached can be turned upvertically inside the bearing 0.

I is an arm which supports the bracket or shelf D, said arm beingpivoted at l to lugs at the top of bearing 0. This arm can be turnedover bodily on top of the casket. It has an offset with a knuckle k onits inner end through which passes a set screw w, by which means the armis supported and can be set at any upward angle as indicated by thedotted lines at the left in Fig. l.

E E are two plates secured on the under side of the bracket D; and G, G,are two fixed rods forming ways extending parallel from plate to plate.

H is a block forming a runner, having four lugs 11. u resting andsliding on the ways.

e is a swivel block pivoted to turn on the under side of the runner H,to which swivel block the outer end of the arm is pivoted. By thisarrangement the bracket can be slid out or in, the runner at the end ofthe arm allowing free movement of the ways in the runner; and inaddition to this the arm I with the bracket attached can be swung overbodily from the position shown in black (Fig. 1) to the position shownin dotted lines at the right, or it can be swung around horizontally,the bracket still remaining right side up, and

resting over the casket, which is a conven ience in removing the casketfrom the room or carrying it. The flowers can remain on the bracket inboth positions.

p is a hook-shaped log on top of the arm I, and r is a socket in one ofthe plates E into which it strikes to lock the bracket to the arm.

sis a flat spring on the under side of the bracket. Then the lug isengaged with the socket the end of the spring strikes behind theshoulder of the lug, and prevents it from being drawn out.

i is a cord attached to the top of the spring, thence extending upthrough an eye q and along the under side of the bracket, so that whenseized and drawn outward it will raise the spring and release the lugand allow the parts to be disengaged.

Instead of the cord t the springs may have a lug or pin 2 which strikesinto a socket of the bearing E, as shown at Fig. 5.

Having described my invention I do not claim broadly an extensiblebracket capable of being shifted in position Without being inverted.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a bracket for burial caskets, the combination of a bearing withattachments for fastening it to the casket, an arm pivoted to springthat rests behind the hook and locks the same in place, as set forth.

3. The combination, with the bearing and with the stop on the casket, ofa pivoted clamp attached t0 the bearing, a set screw passing through thebearing and acting on the clamp, and a set screw or screws passingthrough the top of the bearing and fastening to the casket, as setforth.

4:. The combination, with the bearing, of a screw pivoted to the same soas to turn up and down, and a tubular nut on the screw for adjusting thebearing to caskets of different inclinations, as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

B. F. GLEASON. \Vitnesses:

R. F. Oseoon, I JACOB SPAI-IN.

